Paint it brown, it would be unmistakable. Perhaps some of our fine scale modelers would attach a few scale-sized flies for accuracy.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-Wa...043620?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2580951424 Recently I have been watching Superliners on ebay, working on building a current Empire Builder "one car at a time". Came across this offering. Now mind you I'm a newbie on pricing Walthers Superliners, I would expect to pay around $20-$50 on one, depending on my good or bad fortune....but $250? Is this thing really that rare?
:startled: NO. that car was worth around $40-$60 dollars new. Maybe even $70 on markup, but $250 is insane. I have a full set (sans that elusive baggage car) for the amtrak empire builder and even with the locomotives, I think I only paid $200 in all.
If its one of the interior free blacked out window versions like I have, then yeah, $15 max. If it has an interior, then it might start at $30-$40 and go from there, but neither of the two runs were small or hard to find. If I needed a few more my LHS has both so they are still in the retail market making that $250 cost for one look ridiculous.
OK, well thanks for the responses. I had just been to the LHS on Friday and he had an identical one to the ultra-rare $250 edition for $40, new in the box, with plated finish and interior and the Phase IV paint scheme. I was afraid I'd really let something slip through my fingers :cute:
That's insanity. At the current ebay prices - even at the $50 range - I'm going to do better at the LHS, since I don't have to pay the shipping.
Those Walthers Superliners are way nice. With them being sold out at Walthers, I can understand the price increase. However, they were just last year's run. I wouldn't be suprised if they make another run in 2014. It's reminicient of the Athearn F59PHI and Bombardier Bi-Levels which hit super rare status after they sold out and Athearn was told by the various transit companies that they didn't have the right to sell their brand. However, I don't think Walther's has that problem. I think everyone learned their lesson from UP and the Transits about trademarks, so I'm sure they have license. There is also sustained competition from Kato on these Superliners. As long as there is an Amtrak, I'm sure Walthers will continue to sell them, albeit sporadically. So, while $200 for a single coach is pretty high, I don't think it's unjustified. I just think it's unnecessary.
Yes. I had to bump this. First post in this thread, and the guy is STILL trying to sell it 6 months later, albeit at a slight discount now. Note the number of offers that were refused or expired. I think this guy is just an estate sales person. Don't have a clue how to use the very same eBay he's selling on to figure out the value of what he's trying to pawn off on unsuspecting people.
I get your point but I'm sticking with unjustified and outrageous, along with insane. Ultimately the market will sort it all out. If this seller can get $250 for a Walther's Superliner, then kudos to him. They ARE nice models, especially the plated ones....but if the market really does start swinging that way, then the older silver painted ones will start looking a lot better to me! $100 and above is strictly locomotive territory.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-ATHEARN-...281962?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item258098b72a I would throw a bid on this, until I see the shipping. $15.00? One car? He said he added weight, but c'mon.........
I can't understand the price increase. Some online retailers and LHSs still have them on the shelves for retail prices. If they were completely sold out from the retailers, then yeah, I could see it. As for the F59PHIs, I don't understand what happened. Athearn got permission to do another run of P42s/AMD 103s, but didn't do another run of 59s? Further more, I think their Cascades F59PHI is the only stock anything to come in that paint scheme. Electrotren made a "full" set of the Talgos in demonstrator but it's DIY for the fins and paint scheme. You want to talk about super rare, very few of us in the US even have the bar car and lounge diner car for the Talgo consist. I still get told they don't exist since those cars were "never made." I got my F59PHI for $70. I've turned down 3 and 5 times that for the Talgo consist. Walthers alone has done several runs now of various versions of the Superliners. We in the PNW got (as far as I know) one foreign run of the American Talgo consist, in demonstrator.
Just picked up a Superliner II diner and sleeper at the LHS for under $80 combined, with zero shipping cost. They had maybe 5 or 6 more. I think with any item that has been discontinued you will have hucksters trumpeting "RARE...COLLECTIBLE". You only need one gullible soul to make it pay. But yes, retailers still have them, and in my particular LHS case, he's had them a long time.
Speaking of rare .... a Walthers Superliner set, with Con-Cor trucks? http://www.ebay.com/itm/221272202322?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 I've been staring at a ton of ebay listings for Superliners and those trucks don't look like Walthers. I suppose it could be an old version Walthers made? Anybody? :question:
